Case study · Large format

Takmeel highway billboard

One development campaign across two billboard formats: a fifty-foot printed board and a digital screen with a completely different aspect ratio. Both read by a driver at speed, in about three seconds.

Client
Takmeel Developments, UAE (via SevenT3)
Pieces
Printed billboard 50′ × 10′ · digital screen billboard
Languages
Bilingual, English and Arabic
Status
Both live on Dubai highways
Takmeel highway billboard: Print file
Print file · BLEED · SAFE AREA · CROP LINE
Takmeel highway billboard: On the highway
On the highway · 50′ × 10′ · INSTALLED

The printed board runs 5:1. Logo left, image strip through the centre, Arabic right, built to be read in about three seconds at speed.

Takmeel highway billboard: The digital screen version, close to 2:1. Imagery left, the lockup stacked right. A relayout, not a crop.
The digital screen version, close to 2:1. Imagery left, the lockup stacked right. A relayout, not a crop.
Takmeel highway billboard: The digital board live on a Dubai highway.
The digital board live on a Dubai highway.

What we did

  • Relaid the campaign for each format rather than stretching one to fit the other, 5:1 for print and close to 2:1 for the screen
  • Set both bilingually, with the Arabic and English balanced in weight rather than one treated as a translation of the other
  • Built the hierarchy for three seconds at speed: brand, then promise, then one contact route, and nothing else competing
  • Held the deep green and gold across both media, allowing for how differently an emissive screen and printed vinyl render the same colour
  • Set bleed, safe area and crop line on the print file, keeping content clear of the frame that eats the edges of a mounted board

The relayout is the lesson. Same campaign, two aspect ratios, two genuinely different compositions, not a crop and not a stretch. Any shop handed a landscape file for a portrait banner knows how rare that is.

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